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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A naturally rounded paving stone.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A cobble or rounded stone; especially, such a stone used in paving.
  2. To pave with cobblestones.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. pave with cobblestones
  2. n. rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English kobilstane, from cobble (probably a diminutive of one of various words cob, presumed to stem from a Proto-Germanic root kubb- "something rounded") + Old English stan ("stone") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English cobelston : obsolete cobel, probably diminutive of cob, round object; see cob + Middle English ston, stone, stone; see stone. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “If you have not had your fill of ghost-ridden heroes, needy orphans, and foggy nights in cobblestone streets, this sequel - with its breakneck plot, colorful characters, and the reappearance of Scrooge and the Cratchits - will fill the bill.”

    Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard: Book summary

  • “This type of cobblestone is typical on the hillsides even when fronting million dollar homes.”

    Treasure of the Sierra Madre -- wintering in San Miguel de Allende

  • “Rubén was correct in his explanation of a "cobblestone" street.”

    Empedradillo

  • “Winding our way through the city streets, the jangle of harnesses and the steady clop of our horses’ hooves on the cobblestone were the only sounds.”

    Simon & Schuster: Belle

  • “When they stepped from their carriages onto the cobblestone streets, they could see that they were in for a very long war.”

    Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

  • “One rainy day I walked to an out-of-the-way section of town where the buildings were old, and the streets were cobblestone.”

    Fictionaut: Still Life

  • “You won't find many grand colonial homes and winding cobblestone streets as in some areas of the mainland, nor is there a large indigenous Mexican population.”

    Help appreciated in location choice!

  • “This is an extremely quiet neighborhood, with artists 'studios and a health food store along the cobblestone streets and I've seen places for rent and sale nearby.”

    Page 3

  • “Or the cobblestone-streeted one south of the Rio Cuale, with little cafes and bougainvillea-covered hillsides?”

    Help appreciated in location choice!

  • “The village of Zirahuén is a small collection of homes and resident serving tiendas (shops) laid out in a patchwork of dirt, cobblestone and gravel roads.”

    Zirahuen, Michoacan: Mexico's Walden Pond

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  • yarb Great comment, rolig. I love bulyzhnik! Nov 26, 2007

  • rolig In Russian, the word for cobblestone is "bulyzhnik," a lovely roundish word that fits nicely in the hand of a revolutionary. In Slovene, the humble cobblestone is the more angular "tlakovec" (the final "c" is pronounced as "ts"), a word that still seems to carry the echoes of horse hooves and carriage wheels. Nov 26, 2007

  • librarymistress slow down, you move too fast
    you got to make the morning last
    just kicking down the cobble stones...
    (Simon & Garfunkel) Sep 25, 2007

  • jennarenn These are downright obnoxious when they're too rounded; I can see why they went out of fashion. Aug 20, 2007

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